{"id":459,"date":"2013-10-05T21:46:36","date_gmt":"2013-10-05T19:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.wordpress.com\/?p=459"},"modified":"2013-10-05T21:46:36","modified_gmt":"2013-10-05T19:46:36","slug":"glasgow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/?p=459","title":{"rendered":"Glasgow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-845\" src=\"https:\/\/maponmyplate.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/10\/dsc09369.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"dsc09369\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">Upon arriving in Glasgow, I stumbled across the biggest running event in Scotland: the <strong>Great Scottish Run<\/strong><em>,<\/em> sponsored by the Bank of Scotland. I did not get to see <em>t<\/em><em>he real deal<\/em> as in the half marathon, but got there in time for the toddler dash (distance: 100m and much more suitable for my shape). I stayed to watch a pile of adorable toddlers crawl, walk, roll or tumble towards the finnish line (or any other direction). The picture above shows the very last contestant to finish the race, woohooo!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">A small remark: I started this Ireland\/Great Britain trip with a great confidence in my English language skills. That confidence got a bit shaken when conversation with the locals in Dublin was not going as smoothly as I expected.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><em>Nah, no biggie, <\/em>I thought, <em>all will be sorted out with a bit of practise.<\/em> It was only when I got to Northern Ireland that I realized there might be a serious problem. <em>Maybe it is just the Irish, things will get better as soon as I get to Great Britain.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">And then I landed in Scotland&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-846\" src=\"https:\/\/maponmyplate.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/10\/dsc09372.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"dsc09372\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-848\" src=\"https:\/\/maponmyplate.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/10\/dsc09385.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"dsc09385\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">Industrialization has left a deep impact on the city and has given Glasgow an industrial landscape and urban charm.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-849\" src=\"https:\/\/maponmyplate.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/10\/dsc09405.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"dsc09405\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-850\" src=\"https:\/\/maponmyplate.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/10\/dsc09408.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"dsc09408\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-852\" src=\"https:\/\/maponmyplate.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/10\/dsc09411.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"dsc09411\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-853\" src=\"https:\/\/maponmyplate.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/10\/dsc09414.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"dsc09414\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-854\" src=\"https:\/\/maponmyplate.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/10\/dsc09419.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"dsc09419\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[515,1058,1264],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/rsz_dsc09350.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}